30.3827, Calls: English; Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Finland

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Subject: 30.3827, Calls: English; Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Finland

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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 06:32:36
From: Sofia Rüdiger [sofia.ruediger at uni-bayreuth.de]
Subject: Lesser-Known and Expanding Circle Varieties of English on Social Media

 
Full Title: Lesser-Known and Expanding Circle Varieties of English on Social Media 

Date: 03-Jun-2020 - 03-Jun-2020
Location: Joensuu, Finland 
Contact Person: Sofia Sofia
Meeting Email: Sofia
Web Site: http://www.uef.fi/web/isle6/pre-conference-workshops 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2019 

Meeting Description:

While ‘lesser-known’ varieties of English (LKEs, cf. Schreier, Trudgill,
Schneider, and Williams 2010; Williams, Schneider, Trudgill, and Schreier
2015) and Expanding Circle Englishes (ECEs, Kachru 1985) may have received
less attention than more widely studied varieties (with Indian English,
Singapore English, South African English as cases in point), they certainly
are not ‘lesser’ in deserving scholarly attention. The goal of this workshop
is to stimulate researchers’ exchanges on lesser-known varieties, understood
here as varieties that have not yet been subjected to extensive scrutiny, and
ECEs. In contrast to previous approaches, which focused primarily on varieties
in ‘Inner’ and ‘Outer’ Circle contexts, we include varieties used in either
‘Inner’, ‘Outer’, or ‘Expanding’ Circle settings. As a key component of the
workshop, our focus lies on the manifestation, realisation, and discussion of
LKEs and ECEs on social media platforms. The role of social media as a
transnational phenomenon will be of relevance here, as it is often also used
to display these varieties to a global audience – for instance in the form of
YouTube videos explaining and/or presenting particular varieties (see
Schneider 2016). The potential of social media data for the study of World
Englishes has so far been under-harnessed as a data source in the field;
however, its powerful and promising nature needs to be balanced with the
ethical considerations inherent in using such data.

There is a growing importance of internet registers in World Englishes
research in general (e.g., Shakir and Deuber 2019), also seen in the creation
and use of the Global Web-based English (GloWbE) corpus (Davies and Fuchs
2015); most of which, however, consists of websites and blogs (both online
genres with low levels of interaction) and largely neglects data from
Expanding Circle Englishes and lesser-known varieties of English. Some studies
point to productive and/or creative online uses of English across ECEs and
LKEs: for example, English in Mongolia has become “the universal or
one-size-fits-all language for the majority of Mongolian FB [Facebook] pages”
(Dovchin 2017: 23), often creatively mixing the Cyrillic and Latin writing
systems (Billé 2010). One may also question the extent to which language or
dialect death is averted or at least delayed by the presence of such LKEs
online.


Call for Papers:

We welcome submissions for contributions (20 minutes for presentation + 10
minutes for discussion) addressing one or more of the following aspects:

- analyses of linguistic features in LKEs and ECEs on social media;
- metalinguistic discourse about LKEs and ECEs on social media;
- methodological approaches to LKEs and ECEs on social media;
- ethical considerations related to working with data from the Internet
(involving LKEs and ECEs in particular);
- corpus compilation and design when data from social media are involved;
- any other issues related to the topic of the workshop.

Please submit your abstract of 400 words (excluding references) via e-mail to
jakob.leimgruber at unibas.ch, sven.leuckert at tu-dresden.de, and
sofia.ruediger at uni-bayreuth.de by 31 December 2019. Notification of acceptance
will be sent out by 31 January 2020.




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